The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-09

HENRY OvERsTorx, ex-mayor Of St Louis
and president OF the Fifth National Bank
Of that city, which recently failed. died on
the 18th. He was born in Westphalia, July
4, 1872
r. D. SMITH, editor OF the Redwood (CaL)
Times ssd Gasefte, was shot and fatally
wounded recently by DR.. B. E Powell.
The latter had been accused in the columns
Of the paper ofdefrauding widow.
WILLIAM SHRkEI, Of Chicago, the man
who ran . clock which purported to give
the quotation Of gram and stocks, has been
found guilty Of running gambling house
and his punishment fixed st elO0 The jury
| ignored their power to punish Shekel I'M
der the Habitual Criminal act and give him
term Of imprisonment
THREE trains were recently in collision
near Butte, II. T., recently. Much damage
was done, but no one was seriously m
jured. The triple accident was caused by
the slippery ice incrusting the rails.
AT St. Louis on the 3Oth Right Rev.
Thomas Bonacum was consecrated to the
new Roman Catholic See OF Lincoln, Neb.
The services were conducted by Archbishop
Kenrick. At Nashville, Tenn, the same
day Rev. E. Scannell was consecrated
Bishop OF Concordia, Kan.
The Nationals captured the Cherokee
Legislature on the 3Oth, the Senate for the
vote stood six to five.
The increasing lawlessness reported in
the Indian Territory is attracting atten-
ton. As many as seven murders occurred
within four days recently within an area Of
one hundred miles.
CAPTAIN GEORGE A. THOMPSON, of Deer
Creek. Mimi, has been indicted for mis-
using funds of the school district Of which
he was treasurer.
OVER five hundred Of the leading Pro-
hibitionists gathered at Armory u in Chi
cago on the 3Oth. The plan Of campaign
was discussed and the National convention
was called to meet at Indianapolis the first
Wednesday of June, 1858.
Two Chicago striking printers, recently
arrested for violating the Merritt Conspi-
racy law, were discharged by the court.
THE Iowa Soldiers Home was opened re-
Gently at Marshalltown, Judge John T.
Rea, Of Minneapolis, Commander-in-C Chief
Of the G. A. r., and General j. NJ. Tuttle,
Department Commander of Iowa, partlci-
pating in the dedication.
A SPECIAL from Dodgeville, Wis, says
news Of an explosion on the work Of the
F. D. 4 N. road, two miles south of Dodge
Vile, had been received. One man and two
horses were killed outright and five men
burned. The laborers were boring out an
unexploded blast.
A CRAZY Anarchist has been arrested at
Lima, U. He was threatening to do for
Governor Oglesby and wanted President
Cleveland to come of his throne.
The strike of the Pacific Coast Seamen's
Union was reported causing hard feelings.
At San Diego unknown parties threw a
bomb against boycotted bark, tearing q
hole in her bow.
FULL charge of all railroad switching in
Packingtown has been turned over to the
Union Stock Yards Company by the va
rious roads centering in Chicago. Thirty
locomotives, twenty telegraph operators
and 2OO switchmen were engaged by the
stock yards to do the work.
THE Legislature of the Choctaw Nation
convened on the Cd.
The maltsters' strike OF Milwaukee, Wis,
has practically ended, the local union hav-
ing given PERMISSION to the men to get work
wherever they can find it.
BENFORD LEONARD was caught in the act
Of breaking a switch lock at the junction of
the Soldiers Home branch Of the Dayton 4
Delphos railroad, near Dayton, O., the other
night. and sent to jail.
CORONER c. X. MCHATToN, one Of the
most popular men Of Denver, Col, was
found dead in bed the other day from the
effects of an overdose of laudanum. De-
ceased had considerable domestic trouble
and it was thought the drug was taken to
produce sleep.
The Anarchists have finally decided to
inter the bodies Of the executed men in
Greenwood cemetery, twenty miles south
of Chicago, on the Chicago 4 Grand Trunk
road. The site, which is the apex of hill,
is donated by the cemetery company.
DANIEL MCCLELLAN and D. ]. Jones, two
young men Of Staubville ID. T., were suffo-
Gated by coal gas the other morning. Nc
Lellan was dead when found and Jones'
recovery was doubtful.